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“Meteorites are not just in the sky; get down on the subway of a city, and you will find people who do not know…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

“Asteroids are craggy chunks of rock. Comets are balls of dirt, ice, and frozen gases. And meteors are, quite simply, whatever falls through and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

— Maria Mitchell

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and…

— KT Tunstall

More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that…

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin…

— David G. Simons

Small bodies in our solar system, like comets and asteroids, help us understand how the solar system formed and provide opportunities to advance exploration.

— John M. Grunsfeld

“From a distance, even the most violent events in nature can seem innocuous and easily overlooked. Thousands of feet above the Earth, viewed from…

— K.R. Griffiths

I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of…

— Vera Rubin

“[ Asteroids are ] the vermin of the skies. [ Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs .]”

— Walter Baade

“Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The meteors produce a loud momentary effect; we look up, shout 'see there!' and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer